Magi Gibson is an award-winning poet whose work has been widely published in anthologies and literary magazines in the UK, Ireland, USA and Canada. Originally from Kilsyth, she has lived and worked for most of her adult life near Stirling. She currently lives in Glasgow. She has held three Scottish Arts Council Creative Writing Fellowships and one Royal Literary Fellowship.

She has published four collections of poetry. Her sequence, The Senile Dimension, won the Scotland on Sunday/Women 2000 Writing Prize. Her work appears in Scottish Love Poems and Modern Scottish Women Poets (both Canongate), and The Twentieth Century Book of Scottish Poetry (Edinburgh University Press). Her third poetry collection, Wild Women of a Certain Age, was published by Chapman in 2000. Magi also writes for children.